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Quick Access Toolbar in Power BI Desktop – Get more working space for your productivity

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Hi, Good Saturday to you all 🙂 I would like to share today a very small and quick Tip. This is for all those Users who needs some more space while building Power BI Reports. And at the same time, have their favorite options available in some corner. You can do that in few steps. 1. Launch Power BI Desktop (does not matter whether it’s Power BI Desktop or Power BI Desktop for Report Server). You should see something like this. 2. Right click anywhere on Ribbon -> Select “Show Quick Access Toolbar below the Ribbon”. 3. Then your Quick … Continue reading →

Power BI – World Tour (7 cities across the world)

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The “Power BI User Group” (PUG) is going to run the “Power BI World Tour” with access to premium Power BI content designed by your local industry experts. Starting in August, the tour will visit seven cities throughout the World. Hurry up and register before 7 August to get discounted rates for this 2 days event. Check here for details: https://www.pbiusergroup.com/participate/pbi-world-tour 19-20 Aug @ New York 23-24 Aug @ London 28-29 Aug @ Copenhagen 4-5 Oct @ San Francisco 4-5 Oct @ Toronto 11-12 Oct @ Chicago 6-7 Nov @ Sydney I wish that next time, ASIA will be covered too … Continue reading →

Recover Backed-up query files in SQL Server Management Studio

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Hi guys, I just want to share quickly very handy tip regarding your SQL query sessions. When you open SQL queries in SSMS, you generally go on and work in newly opened pane/window but sometimes dont save that work. SSMS by default saves them in the event of pre-mature closure or crash of SSMS or PC restart etc. You can find your SQL queries from following lcoation. C:\Users\<UserName>\Documents\SQL Server Management Studio\Backup Files\Solution1 FYI, I have found my queries here: P.S. I am using Windows Server 2008 Operating System. This path could vary based on the Operating System. You can figure … Continue reading →

Retrieving id of inserted record: What to use @@IDENTITY or SCOPE_IDENTITY() or OUTPUT

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Hi guys, This seems very basic information but need to know properly. Issue: I need to find out or have the id of the records which I inserted in table. Analysis: This requirement seems very simple but there could be various cases where you would not get the correct id just by using @@IDENTITY function. Think of the case where you are inserting a record in table A and there is a trigger which fires as soon as there is a insert in table A which insert a record in table B. so in such case @@IDENTITY wont give you the … Continue reading →

The Story of Precision, Scale, and Length in SQL Server

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Hi guys, Did you ever faced issues with BIG mathematical figures – related to either overflow or any  other arithmetic errors. This may be applicable to SQL arithmetic operations or arithmetic  operations you do with SQL table in SSIS etc. Well, check 1 more time, if you have any issues in your database design related to column  data type which stores the BIG numbers. I ran into this issue couple of times, and reason behind this issue was same all the time. So  decided to do a quick post. And that reason is “Improper or insufficient precision, scale and length defined for storing … Continue reading →

Tracking Down Ghost Characters: WHERE Clause Does Not Work Properly In T-SQL Query

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Hi guys, I would like to share an experience with you when I was working on 1 SSIS related issue. Scenario was: I have to exclude some records from Table A by matching some keys of Table B.  Table A Year Month CustomerCode <Extra Columns> 2012 JAN CX1000   2012 JAN CX2000   2012 JAN CD3000      Table B Year Month RecCustomerCode <Extra Columns> 2012 JAN CX1000   2012 JAN CX7000   2012 JAN CD8000      What is expected was – Table A’s following records: Year Month CustomerCode <Extra Columns> 2012 JAN CX2000   2012 JAN CD3000   … Continue reading →

E-Book Gallery for Microsoft Technologies

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Hi guys, good morning !!! here is the list of cool FREE E-Books from Microsoft Press.

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SSRS Chart – Displaying % sign on Y axis + Displaying % sign on Data Labels

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Hi guys, Today i would like to show you the little trick for your SSRS graphs. Issue: I am displaying values (percentage values) in my bar charts as “Data Labels”. But the “Y” axis of my bar char still displays value without the “%” sign. What I need: The bar chart should display the “%” value in Data Labels as well as on my Y axis. Simple try: When you format the Data Label to apply “%” sign by making it of type “Percentage” in “Series Label Properties” -> “Number” -> “Percentage”. It actually multiply the value by 100 and … Continue reading →

View is not showing newly added column in table

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Hi all, This is for the people who still use “Select * From Table” in their SQL Views. I don’t know what is the reason that you are using this way to create your views, but you could be the victim of this scenario (see… what title says). Let me show you how you can solve this issue… in-case you come across one. When this happens?? You make changes in table which is the source of your view. Changes like modifying existing column definition, adding new columns or removing existing columns from table could cause this issue. Where can I … Continue reading →

SSRS Report is asking for Username and Password while executing

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Hi all, I want to bring to your focus a very minor detail which could eat-up your time when it happens. This is the case when your SSRS report is deployed on ReportServer and you are accessing thru any application or interface e.g. SharePoint. Your SSRS report is using Integrated Security and hence no need to provide Username and Password if you have access to the Report. And everything works fine up to this point. After some days, if you notice that your SSRS Report is not working as expected and it has started asking for Username and Password while … Continue reading →